whether there was information about a threat his son made about america. that information should have been knitted up together with the prior electronic intercept that talks about a nigerian being involved in a christmas airplane attack. >> this goes to the question of bureaucratic bloat. one of the issues i keep hearing when i talk to intelligence officials is they feel there were more entities added on after the 9/11 commission made recommendations and none taken away. there are more people working in the community. there are more bits of intelligence coming in. maybe it needs streamlining. my question to you, fran, because you worked in this community, did the 9/11 commission recommendations fail? >> i will tell you i actually think the execution of those agencies failed in this instance. i supported the recommendations and was actually responsible for their implementation. could the office of the dni, the executive office be smaller? probably. i have to tell you more people devoted to putting the dots together and collecting additional dots is a good t